Democrats close ranks against working people
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Brooklyn, N.Y.—Palestinians protest the recent visit of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. For more information on events in Palestine see special interview on pages 12-13. GALILE NE iCE The word was "harmony," as Jesse Jackson and Michael Dukakis brought the Democratic Party's three-ring vote-catching show to the Mid-Atlantic industrial states.
Between the two candidates, "there are distinctions but not divisions," Jesse Jackson emphasized to a television audience in Philadelphia.
"Dull but practical" Gov. Michael Dukakis became the party's frontrunner for Jesse Jackson and the 1988 elections. See pp. 7 - 9.
the presidential nomination after winning a majority of New York State's Democratic delegates.
But Jesse Jackson, who finished in first place in New York City, received by far both the most enthusiastic applause and the loudest "Bronx cheers."
The tone of the New York campaign was set by Mayor Edward Koch's racist broadsides against Jackson. On the eve of the election, for example, the city's tabloids ran banner headlines quoting Koch's latest edict—that Jackson had lied about his role in Martin Luther King's assassination 20 years ago.
On the other hand, Jackson was able to win the support of almost all of New York City's Black and Hispanic leaders. He also lined up more local trade-union officials